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The report by Araki et al is important for a number of reasons, most significantly that it is the first-ever study of pleural abnormalities potentially related to asbestos in a large, general population (the Framingham Heart Study (FHS) Third Generation cohort) that is based on chest CT scans rather than chest radiographs.1 Pleural abnormalities were reported to be present in 1.5% of the study population. A key conclusion of the study was that the prevalence of pleural abnormalities in the present study was significantly lower than …
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Contributors Each author has participated sufficiently in this submission to take public responsibility for its content. Publication has been approved by all authors.
Competing interests AF has served as an expert witness in asbestos litigation.
Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; internally peer reviewed.
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